Download/Homepage This has got to be the fastest and easiest HTML photo
gallery software on the planet. As the name implies, it's five steps to creating
a photo album. I was able to create a great looking album in a matter of a few
minutes. There's practically no learning curve so even your kids will be
knocking out cool galleries in no time. The interface is so simple there's not
even a toolbar. There are buttons for previous and next steps on each page. The
only other buttons you'll find are a help button and browse buttons for photos
and save folders. You can even skip steps two and three for setting custom
styles if you want to! Simply browse and select photos, hit a few buttons and
blammo! you have a photo gallery.
The Step 1 page is where you browse your hard drive or CD-ROM drive for photos.
Once you choose a folder the photos are listed in a window on the left and you
can select the photos you want and transfer them to the window on the right to
build your album list. There are tick boxes to add all files in a folder
automatically, include sub folders or clear the list before adding. The gallery
image list has a drop down menu with options for saving and loading lists, page
separator tools, and sorting. I found the page separator tools particularly
handy for splitting the list into pages by folder. There's a much welcome image
preview window and a box to type in comments for selected images.
Step 2 is the gallery styles page. You can set the thumbnail row and column
layout, navigation links, link activation and colors and background here. The
pages can be set up with navigation links at the top or bottom or in frames with
page menu on the left. You can also name your index page and make it a relative
or absolute link. There's an advanced menu too that lets you add header and
footer info as well as a title. Backgrounds can be set to any color with the
color picker or you can choose a tiled image instead.
The thumbnail styles page is next with a preview area to give you an idea of how
your thumbs will look. You can set the size and add shadows or black frames.
There are a couple of settings in this step that seem to have been misplaced
from the gallery styles step. For some odd reason the options for file
descriptions and gallery image size settings ended up here. There is also a JPEG
compression setting here that applies to both thumbnail and gallery images.
The fourth step involves selecting an output folder for your album and there are
saving conventions like auto rename images using masks, generation of relative
or absolute image locations, and converting non web compatible formats to JPEG
format.
Step 5 has only buttons for starting, stopping, aborting an album and shows the
progress. Once complete the button changes to a "show me" button that launches
your web browser and displays your album.
While this program doesn't have many of the image editing capabilities of more
sophisticated photo album software, that's not the aim of this program and it
does what it does extremely well. If you don't have the time or inclination for
a more complex program, 12345 Good Photo Gallery Wizard is just what you need.
It's fast, easy and the price is reasonable. Now, where did I put that disk with
the bachelor party photos?
Please send your questions or comments to:
Lain O'Siodhachain
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